Linux Tutorial Cheat Sheet

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Cluster commands Task management

qstat print list of all your jobs ps See all of your active processes

qsub <s​cri​pt> submit <s​cri​pt> as a job top Constantly updating list of ordered (by resources)
processes
qlogin login to an intera​ctive session on the cluster
time print time taken to complete after command finishes
qdel <job ids> delete the jobs (<job ids> can be a pattern)
<c​omm​and​> running

kill <p​id> terminate process with id <p​id>

Browsing files

cd <d​est​ina​tio​n> change directory

Name Expansions
ls [patt​ern] list all files or match pattern
{a..z} or {1..1​00} expands to the series e.g a b c d ...
pwd print current directory
* expands to match anything, any number of times
You can return to your home directory by using cd ~
? Match anything once

$((2 + 2)) Arithmetic expansion (evaluates to 2)

Modifying files
rm [patt​ern]
mv [sour​ces] [dest​ina​tion]
cp [sour​ces] [dest​ina​tion]
$(​<c​omm​and​> ) expands to the result of the command
remove files (-r for recursive)
~ absolute path to home directory
move / rename file(s) or folder(s)
ls *.txt - list all .txt files
copy file(s) (-r to create desina​tion)
cp *{0..9} - list files which end in a number between 0 and 9

Modifying direct​ories
Processing stdout
mv [sour​ces] [dest​ina​tion] rename / move directory
awk -F "​," '{print print only column n of files
mkdir <d​ire​cto​ry> create a directory
$<c​olumn number​>}'
rmdir <d​ire​cto​ry> remove a directory
sort (-n) sort alphab​eti​cally (alpha​num​eri​cally)
rm -rf <d​ire​cto​ry> remove directory and all subdir​ect​ories
uniq (-c) print only one instance of repeated lines
(with count of lines)
Finding files
grep (-i) [patt​ern] print lines which contain pattern (ignore
find . -file -name Find all .txt files in the current directory and below case)
"​*.t​xt" and print
wc -l print number of lines
locate [patt​ern] match files with pattern anywhere in the full path sed replace all instances matching
and print /<​pat​ter​n>​/<​rep​lac​emen
​ t>/g <p​att​ern​> with <r​epl​ace​men​t>

Can combine with | grep. locate may require sudo updatedb from time to To use on a collection of files, all commands would be prefixed by:
time, and won't work on cluster without some modifi​cation. cat [files] |

Viewing files
Remote Managment

head [file​names] print first 10 lines of file

​ >​@<h
ssh <u​ser​name ​ os​t> login to multi-user machine
tail [file​names] print last 10 lines of file
scp Cope file(s) from <h​ost​> to
cat [file​names] concat​enate files and print ​ >​@<h
<u​ser​name ​ os​t>​:[r​ emote <l​oca​l> destin​ation.
source] <l​ocal​ >

rsync -t only copy updated files from

<u​ser​nam​e>​@<​hos​t>​:[​remote ​ st​> to <l​ocal​ >
<ho
source] <l​ocal​ >

For the multi-user linux machine, <h​ost​> should be stem-s​su-​linux

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Useful

chmod +x <f​ile​> give executable priveleges to <f​ile​>

seq <s​tar​t> <st​ep> print sequence of numbers from <s​tar​t> to <s​top​>

<st​op> in increments of <s​tep​>

man <c​omm​and​> open the manual page for man

more <f​ile​> print output in naviga​teable pages

fdisk -l list all the connected drives and partitions

mount <p​art​iti​on> directory will now lead to the partiton (useful for usb
<d​ire​cto​ry> storage)

stdout can be piped into more to make long outputs readable.

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